What Is Testicular Atrophy?
9. Complications
Men with testicular atrophy may find their secondary sex characteristics diminished. For example, they may lose muscle mass and experience decreased facial hair and/or pubic hair. Additionally, they may experience a decreased sex drive and find themselves infertile. Failure of the germ cells can result in a condition called non-obstructive azoospermia. This is an absence of sperm in the ejaculate.
Testicular torsion not only causes atrophy, but the affected testicle(s) can also become gangrenous and die if treatment does not take place within a matter of hours after the onset of symptoms. If treatment is not obtained in time and necrosis, or tissue death, does set in, it then becomes necessary to remove the affected testicle.
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